Author: ProHoster

Helicopter flight to the battlefield in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare multiplayer teaser

The Infinity Ward studio on the official Call of Duty Twitter published a teaser for the multiplayer mode of the new part with the subtitle Modern Warfare. The developers also announced the date for the first demonstration of multiplayer. The short video shows a screensaver with soldiers arriving on the battlefield. The team sits in a helicopter, the vehicle makes several circles over the location, and then lands at the desired point. In the video, in extreme [...]

The designers of the bosses in Bloodstained had to complete them with the weakest weapons and without damage

There are quite a few bosses in Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night that must be defeated to progress through the story. Some battles may seem difficult, but the developers tried to make them as fair as possible, and project leader Koji Igarashi spoke about an unusual way to achieve such a result in an interview with Gamasutra. As it turns out, the boss designers had to prove that defeating an opponent […]

The Complete Edition of Pillars of Eternity Coming to Nintendo Switch August 8th

Paradox Interactive will release the complete edition of Pillars of Eternity on Nintendo Switch on August 8th. This was reported by the Nintendo Everything portal with reference to the Nintendo eShop digital store. The set will include all expansion packs along with two chapters of The White March. It will also be possible to increase the difficulty level in the game. Pre-orders are already being accepted. In the Russian section of Nintendo eShop […]

Measurement Guide

Good afternoon everyone. Would you like to travel a little? If yes, then we offer you a small surreal universe containing a variety of strange fairy-tale and fantasy worlds. We will visit some of the worlds-entourages that I come up with for use in my role-playing games. Unlike detailed heavy settings, only the most general details are described in the surroundings, conveying the atmosphere and uniqueness of the world. […]

usbrip

usbrip is a command-line forensics tool that allows you to monitor artifacts left behind by USB devices. Written in Python3. Analyzes logs to build event tables that can contain the following information: device connection date and time, user, vendor ID, product ID, etc. In addition, the tool can do the following: export the collected information as a JSON dump; create a list of authorized [...]

Mozilla WebThings Gateway 0.9, gateway for smart home and IoT devices available

Mozilla has published a new release of WebThings Gateway 0.9, as well as an update to the WebThings Framework 0.12 libraries, which form the WebThings platform, which provides components to provide access to various categories of consumer devices and use a universal Web Things API to interact with them. The project's developments are distributed under the MPL 2.0 license. The new release of WebThings Gateway is notable for the development of […]

The Drawing project develops a new image editor for Linux

The second public release of Drawing, a simple drawing program for Linux reminiscent of Microsoft Paint, is available. The project is written in Python and distributed under the GPLv3 license. Pre-built packages are prepared for Debian, Fedora and Arch, as well as in Flatpack format. The program supports images in PNG, JPEG and BMP formats. Traditional drawing tools such as pencil, eraser, […]

From classics and modernism to fantasy and steampunk - what system administrators read

After talking with fellow administrators about fiction, we discovered that we liked books of a wide variety of genres and styles. Then we became interested in conducting a survey among Selectel system administrators on three topics: what do they like from the classics, what is their favorite book, and what are they reading now. The result is a large literary selection, where system administrators share their personal impressions of the books they read. IN […]

Greetings from the last century: the Japanese company introduced a new series of audio cassettes

It would seem that the era of audio cassettes ended in the first half of the last decade. But despite this, they are still being produced, and some companies are even releasing new models. Thus, the Japanese company Nagaoka Trading, specializing in various audio equipment, presented new CT-series compact cassettes. The new series includes four models: CT10, CT20, CT60 and CT90, which can accommodate up to […]

Software Architecture and Systems Design: The Big Picture and Resource Guide

Hello colleagues. Today we offer for your consideration a translation of an article by Tugberk Ugurlu, who undertook to outline in a relatively small volume the principles of designing modern software systems. Here is what the author says about himself in summary: Since it is absolutely impossible to cover in a habro article such a colossal topic as architectural patterns + design patterns as of 2019, we recommend […]

Cloud for philanthropic foundations: a guide to migration

Not long ago, Mail.Ru Cloud Solutions (MCS) and the Dobro Mail.Ru service launched the “Cloud for Charitable Foundations” project, thanks to which non-profit organizations can receive the resources of the MCS cloud platform for free. The Arithmetic of Good charity foundation took part in the project and successfully deployed part of its infrastructure based on MCS. After undergoing validation, an NPO can receive virtual capacity from MCS, […]